| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Galileo Galilei | We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.  | 101 |
| Rene Descartes | I think; therefore I am. | 101 |
| Ethel Waters | We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. | 101 |
| Matthew Henry | None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see. | 101 |
| Norman Douglas | The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. | 101 |
| Oswald Chambers | The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. | 101 |
| Zhuangzi | We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. | 101 |
| Paul Tournier | The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are. | 101 |
| Richard Wright | Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. | 101 |
| Robert W. Service | Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say. | 101 |
| Eve Arnold | What do you hang on the walls of your mind? | 101 |
| M. C. Escher | We adore chaos because we love to produce order. | 101 |
| Eden Phillpotts | The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. | 101 |
| Robert Half | When one teaches, two learn. | 101 |
| Henry David Thoreau | As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. | 102 |
| Viktor E. Frankl | Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. | 102 |
| Michel de Montaigne | Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. | 102 |
| Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. | 102 |
| Louis Pasteur | Fortune favors the prepared mind. | 102 |
| Neil Armstrong | Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. | 102 |
| Oliver Cromwell | Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. | 102 |
| Rose Kennedy | Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. | 102 |
| Thomas Huxley | Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. | 102 |
| William Law | Be intent upon the perfection of the present day. | 102 |
| Eudora Welty | All serious daring starts from within. | 102 |
| Josh Hutcherson | I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying. | 102 |
| Thomas Reid | There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. | 102 |
| Johann Georg Hamann | The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself. | 102 |
| John Galsworthy | Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. | 102 |
| Albert Einstein | Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. | 103 |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. | 103 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. | 103 |
| Rene Descartes | It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. | 103 |
| Willard Van Orman Quine | To be is to be the value of a variable. | 103 |
| John Ruskin | Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. | 103 |
| Babe Ruth | Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. | 103 |
| Eldridge Cleaver | You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem. | 103 |
| Lewis Mumford | A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. | 103 |
| William Godwin | If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak. | 103 |
| Charles Simmons | True greatness consists in being great in little things. | 103 |
| John Henry Newman | We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe. | 103 |
| Leo Rosten | We see things as we are, not as they are. | 103 |
| Robert W. Service | It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. | 103 |
| Francis Herbert Hedge | Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties. | 103 |
| Matsuo Basho | Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. | 103 |
| Jane Roberts | You create your own reality. | 103 |
| Lawrence Clark Powell | Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow. | 103 |
| Sara Teasdale | Life is but thought. | 103 |
| C. S. Lewis | We are what we believe we are. | 104 |
| Aldous Huxley | There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception. | 104 |
| Isaac Newton | To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. | 104 |
| Sai Baba | All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter. | 104 |
| Yogi Berra | If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else. | 104 |
| Bernard Williams | Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. | 104 |
| Charles Baudelaire | Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. | 104 |
| Charles Kettering | High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. | 104 |
| Edward Gibbon | The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. | 104 |
| Federico Fellini | You exist only in what you do. | 104 |
| Gustave Flaubert | One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels. | 104 |
| Oliver Cromwell | Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. | 104 |
| Saul Bellow | A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. | 104 |
| Stanislaw Jerzy Lec | No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. | 104 |
| Charlotte Whitton | We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. | 104 |
| Pierre Bonnard | The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. | 104 |
| Samantha Fox | You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't. | 104 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. | 105 |
| Bill Watterson | Genius is never understood in its own time. | 105 |
| Democritus | Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. | 105 |
| Francesco Guicciardini | The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. | 105 |
| Thomas a Kempis | Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame. | 105 |
| Boris Pasternak | Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. | 105 |
| Thomas Browne | Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. | 105 |
| Steven Moffat | Brainy's the new sexy. | 105 |
| Anita Loos | Memory is more indelible than ink. | 105 |
| Voltaire | Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. | 106 |
| Winston Churchill | We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. | 106 |
| Sigmund Freud | The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. | 106 |
| Aesop | After all is said and done, more is said than done. | 106 |
| James Joyce | The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. | 106 |
| Albert Pike | We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. | 106 |
| Benjamin Spock | You know more than you think you do. | 106 |
| Bernard Williams | We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. | 106 |
| Heraclitus | You cannot step into the same river twice. | 106 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | If not me, who? And if not now, when? | 106 |
| Robert M. Pirsig | The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands. | 106 |
| Robert Staughton Lynd | One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge. | 106 |
| Charles Darwin | The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. | 107 |
| Nikos Kazantzakis | The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. | 107 |
| Marie Curie | Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. | 107 |
| E. M. Forster | Unless we remember we cannot understand. | 107 |
| Saint Basil | Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. | 107 |
| William Feather | A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. | 107 |
| Wilson Mizner | Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. | 107 |
| Ninon de L'Enclos | The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength. | 107 |
| Joseph Roux | A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. | 107 |
| Albert Pike | To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title. | 108 |
| Christian Nestell Bovee | When all else is lost, the future still remains. | 108 |
| Dwight L. Moody | Character is what a man is in the dark. | 108 |
| George Henry Lewes | Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. | 108 |
| Luc de Clapiers | Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. | 108 |
| Martin Heidegger | The possible ranks higher than the actual. | 108 |
| Paul Valery | At times I think and at times I am. | 108 |
| Jean Giraudoux | There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. | 108 |
| Jose Ortega y Gasset | Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are. | 108 |
| Maximillian Degenerez | A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it. | 108 |
| Confucius | I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. | 109 |
| Mark Twain | It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. | 109 |
| Anais Nin | We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. | 109 |
| Virginia Satir | We can learn something new anytime we believe we can. | 109 |
| Juvenal | All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. | 109 |
| Nelly Furtado | I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance. | 109 |
| Thomas Jefferson | In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. | 110 |
| Voltaire | Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. | 110 |
| Karl Pilkington | At the end of the day, teachers aren't going to mess about trying to make me into an Einstein, 'cause it was never gonna happen. We can't all be brainy, can we? That's just the way the world is. | 110 |
| Tony Robbins | If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. | 110 |
| Albert Ellis | There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy. | 110 |
| Erich Fromm | If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I? | 110 |
| Horace | The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor. | 110 |
| Robert Schumann | Talent works, genius creates. | 110 |
| Khalil Gibran | Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. | 111 |
| Anne Frank | The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. | 111 |
| Deepak Chopra | There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. | 111 |
| John C. Maxwell | In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand. | 111 |
| A. A. Milne | You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. | 111 |
| John Locke | What worries you, masters you. | 112 |
| Sigmund Freud | If youth knew; if age could. | 112 |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. | 112 |
| Desiderius Erasmus | Fortune favors the audacious. | 112 |
| Frederick the Great | He who defends everything defends nothing. | 112 |
| Gilbert Parker | It's the people who try to be clever who never are; the people who are clever never think of trying to be. | 112 |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland | Ideals are the world's masters. | 112 |
| Juvenal | I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason. | 112 |
| Edmund Burke | Good order is the foundation of all things. | 113 |
| Franz Kafka | God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. | 113 |
| John Wooden | Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. | 113 |
| John Updike | Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered. | 113 |
| Paul Gauguin | I shut my eyes in order to see. | 113 |
| Daniel Defoe | The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. | 113 |
| Ezra Koenig | If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy. | 113 |
| James Cash Penney | Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it. | 113 |
| John Dryden | Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. | 113 |
| Konrad Lorenz | 'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. | 113 |
| Maximillian Degenerez | The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught. | 113 |
| Immanuel Kant | To be is to do. | 114 |
| John Locke | I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. | 114 |
| Meister Eckhart | What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action. | 114 |
| Friedrich August von Hayek | The mind cannot foresee its own advance. | 114 |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | A pure hand needs no glove to cover it. | 114 |
| Ernest Hemingway | Never mistake motion for action. | 115 |
| Ralph Marston | Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. | 115 |
| Desiderius Erasmus | In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. | 117 |
| Evan Davis | The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London. | 117 |
| Ivan Turgenev | People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves. | 118 |
| Maxwell Maltz | Our self image, strongly held, essentially determines what we become. | 118 |
| Confucius | I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand. | 119 |
| Pablo Picasso | Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. | 119 |
| Aesop | United we stand, divided we fall. | 119 |
| Dag Hammarskjold | We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours. | 121 |
| Henry Van Dyke | What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us. | 121 |
| Albert Einstein | Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. | 122 |
| Epictetus | We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope. | 122 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience. | 122 |
| Emile M. Cioran | Our first intuitions are the true ones. | 122 |
| Elon Musk | Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. | 123 |
| Miguel de Cervantes | It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. | 123 |
| Laurence J. Peter | A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. | 124 |
| Maximillian Degenerez | I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine. | 124 |
| Alfred Adler | It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. | 125 |
| Georg C. Lichtenberg | Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. | 125 |
| Helen Keller | One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. | 201 |
| Ansel Adams | In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. | 201 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | The time is always right to do what is right. | 202 |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | It is quality rather than quantity that matters. | 202 |
| Henry Miller | Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. | 202 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see. | 203 |
| Napoleon Hill | If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. | 203 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. | 204 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. | 204 |
| Andrew Carnegie | You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself. | 204 |
| Thomas Huxley | The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. | 204 |
| Albert Einstein | It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. | 205 |
| Audre Lorde | There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt. | 205 |
| Charles Kettering | Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. | 210 |
| Herodotus | The destiny of man is in his own soul. | 210 |
| Woody Harrelson | Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.' | 210 |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. | 211 |
| T. S. Eliot | It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. | 212 |
| Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind. | 214 |
| Stephen Hawking | I believe things cannot make themselves impossible. | 215 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. | 216 |
| Aristotle | Well begun is half done. | 217 |
| Ellie Goulding | I was super brainy and a proper geek at school, but there would always be a boy. But that sort of obsession did turn me into a songwriter. My writing has always come from that feeling of infatuation. | 218 |
| Aristotle | Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. | 219 |
| Bodhidharma | Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature. | 220 |
| Craig Ferguson | I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger. | 221 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | We must be our own before we can be another's. | 222 |
| Karl Pilkington | Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive. | 223 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | We do not judge the people we love. | 224 |
| Albert Schweitzer | Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always. | 225 |
| Jim Rohn | It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. | 301 |
| Elbert Hubbard | It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get. | 303 |
| Thomas Sowell | Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. | 304 |
| Albert Einstein | Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. | 308 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. | 312 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | It is only in our decisions that we are important. | 312 |
| Walt Whitman | Nothing endures but personal qualities. | 314 |
| Albert Einstein | A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. | 315 |
| Pablo Picasso | I do not seek. I find. | 316 |
| William Hazlitt | Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. | 319 |
| Donald Rumsfeld | If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right. | 321 |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people. | 323 |
| George Eliot | Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. | 401 |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. | 404 |
| Albert Einstein | Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. | 407 |
| Thomas Sowell | Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. | 415 |
| Michael Leunig | An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be. | 419 |
| Victor Hugo | One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. | 511 |
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